Rondo occidentale
An orchestral track with a slightly western flair. Rondo occidentale by Barry van Oudtshoorn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. If you’re interested in using any of my
Improvisations
A set of improvised piano pieces. Some of these are in the style of a Satie Gnossienne or Gymnopedie; others, more free-form. Improvisations by Barry van Oudtshoorn are licensed under a Creative
Nocturne
I’ve been rather remiss in updating my blog — so this track appeared on Soundcloud a while ago, but is only now appearing here. An orchestral piece, Nocturne focuses on an oboe/bassoon
Where you were: collected pieces
Where you were by barryvan
[Music] Where you were
This track is a melange of orchestral, trance, dance, and chip. It’s also probably my “loudest” track to date — whilst I haven’t yet managed to put a compressor on the whole
[Music] Unforgot
It’s been far too long since I published a piece of music. Part of the reason for that is that I was, for a while, without a sound-card in my computer —
[Music] Autumn
This piece was a lot of fun to write. It’s in 7/8, with the bar broken into 2/3/2 rather than the more traditional 3/2/2. There’s a severely tortured Irish flute in the
[Music] When you’re asleep
This track is a fusion of orchestral and electronic sounds — a technique which seems to become more and more a part of my idiom. A slowish lead-up to a strong middle
[Music] Orchestral Sonata II
My wonderful wife gave me a copy of Session Strings Pro for Christmas, and this is its first outing. I’m very impressed by the sound and precision of Session Strings — especially
[Music] Rising
It’s been a while since I last wrote a wholly-orchestral piece. As I was writing this one, I toyed with the idea of turning it into an industrial piece, à la Conflagration,